The Difficult and Important Work of Keeping Things Healthy

If you want to be healthy physically, it’s going to take work: the disciplines of exercise and wisdom/self-control in eating. Emotional health also requires work, the discipline of processing your feelings and your heart in light of truth, community, and God.

Same with the health of your family, your friendships, your church, or your business. It requires work.

I’m amazed at how many people want healthy without work. There is no such thing.

If you want healthy, you must put in the work.

If you’re the primary leader of your home, ministry, business unit, church, etc., perhaps the most difficult and important work you do is the often very ordinary work of keeping things healthy.